1) Catharsis 2) Katharsis 3) Purge 4) Purging 5) Purging of emotional tensions 
Abreaction (Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events. `Abreaction: concept introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1893 to denote the fact that pent-up emotions associated with a trauma....
• (n.) See Catharsis, below.
A process in psychotherapy in which the patient is 'desensitised' to emotionally painful, often forgotten (repressed) memories by recalling and reacting to them in the 'safety' of the treatment setting. ... (12 Dec 1998) ... 
(ab″re-ak´shәn) the expression of emotions associated with repressed material, usually of an anxiety-provoking or conflictual nature, which is brought into a person's awareness and relived. See also catharsis.
An emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience that has been repressed becau
Ab`re·ac'tion noun [ Prefix ab- + reaction , after German Abreagirung .] (Psychotherapy) See Catharsis , below. 
Type: Term Pronunciation: ab-rē-ak′shŭn Definitions: 1. In freudian psychoanalysis, an episode of emotional release or catharsis associated with the conscious recollection of repressed unpleasant experiences.
release of emotional tension achieved through recalling a repressed traumatic experience.